Art 30
Ms. Griffin
2014/2015
 A1
Individual treatments of subject or
thematic matter will help me find my
personal style.
 B2 A variety of drawing techniques is
required to express visual ideas.
 D1 Major 20th century artists and movements
help me to evaluate my own artwork.
 E2 Both planned and spontaneous methods of
making art can be effective.
 Lesson
1: Contour Drawing (2 periods)
 Lesson 2: Drawing a Face without a reference
(2 period)
 Lesson 3: Rembrandt (1 Period)
 Lesson 4: Rembrandt Reverse Drawing (10
periods)
Contour Portraits
Contour : is the edge
of something.
Contour drawings use
line to show the edge
of an object. Contour
drawings never use
shading.
 Blind
Contour:
(pure contour) is
created when you
do not look at your
paper while you are
drawing.
 Pure contour
drawings are often
out of proportion
and strange looking,
so don’t worry, they
are supposed to
look odd!
Semi Blind Contour:
(a modified contour)
is created when your
look at your object
and your paper for
equal amounts of
time. This enables
you to check the
placement of your
pencil or pen, and
to check proportion.
Continuous Line
Drawing: Your pencil
or pen never lifts off
the page and you
must examine the
object which you
are drawing very
carefully; travelling
across the edges of
your object with
your eyes.
 As
a class we are going to practice drawing
different types of contour drawings.
 Materials:
Scrap paper, drawing materials
Art 30
Rembrandt was born in
Leiden on July 15,
1606 - his full name
Rembrandt
Harmenszoon van Rijn.
He was the son of a
miller.
Rembrandt began
his studies at the
Latin School, and
at the age of 14 he
was enrolled at the
University of
Leiden. The
program did not
interest him, and
he soon left to
study art.

After six months,
having mastered
everything he had
been taught,
Rembrandt returned
to Leiden, where he
was soon so highly
regarded that
although barely 22
years old, he took
his first pupils. One
of his students was
the famous artist
Gerrit Dou.
Rembrandt created
some 300 etchings
from about 1626 to
1665. Above all, he
was a great innovator
and experimenter in
this medium, often
handling traditional
materials in
unconventional ways.
His impact on
printmaking is still
reflected in etchings
produced today.
Rembrandt lighting is a
lighting technique that is used
in studio portrait photography.
It can be achieved using one
light and a reflector, or two
lights, and is popular because
it is capable of producing
images which appear both
natural and compelling with a
minimum of equipment.
Rembrandt lighting is
characterized by an
illuminated triangle under the
eye of the subject on the less
illuminated side of the face.
Reverse Rembrandt Drawing
I
can take a reference photo that can be
used and manipulated to create a piece of
artwork
 I can show Rembrandt style lighting in a
piece of art
 Lamp
 Camera
 Black
paper
 White conte/ white charcoal
 Eraser
 Reference photo
1.
2.
3.
Work with a partner to set up the lamp in
the dark room and experiment taking
portrait photos using the school camera.
After you have chosen the photo and
cropped it to how you like, print it out in
black and white
Draw only using white onto black paper.
Focus on the highlights.